Not sure about decades. The UK Public Sector net debt is now 99.5%, which is the highest since 1962 and over 2 trillion pounds. Private sector debt is close to 90% of GDP too, and has increased over … (View Post)

The political-media complex has been abject in its failure, both in the "U"K and also in the USA, The fact of so many "journalists" (really Op/Ed polemicists) being so fully inves… (View Post)

You cant- the current situation is strangling the economy. SMEs in particular are losing as much as 3/4 of their previous trade. A new deal will have to be negotiated. If no deal now then the damage … (View Post)

Johnson, like Putin, "has a reduced sense of danger". His utter recklessness on multiple fronts, not just Brexit and Covid, is going to crash the economy. As the right wing used to say &quo… (View Post)

Well fine, but meanwhile there are a 195 other countries and of those that are most like us a large number have handled the crisis with dramatically fewer deaths. The UK stands out as relatively less… (View Post)